Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Dedications Anita Desai
AD dedicated her Diamond Dust, another volume of short stories, to her students at MIT .
Blackwell’s Online Bookshop. http://Bookshop.Blackwell.co.uk.
OCLC WorldCat. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
Desai, Anita. Diamond Dust. Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
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Employer Aldous Huxley
His major source of income during these years came from lecturing at universities across the USA, including the University of California both at Berkeley and Santa Barbara , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Pittsburgh
Employer Tillie Olsen
In 1952 she acquired a job writing copy for the California American Automobile Association .
Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press, 2010.
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In the later 1950s she worked as stenographer for a medical society, but the FBI ensured she was fired...
Occupation Anita Desai
For about a decade AD taught creative writing at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in the Writing and Humanistic Studies program.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Occupation Denise Levertov
DL held various academic teaching appointments, beginning in 1965 at the City University of New York and at Drew University in New Jersey. In 1966-7 she taught at Vassar . During the 1970s she...
Residence Anita Desai
AD has (in 2011) had twenty-three changes of address in her lifetime. She grew up in two successive old-style bungalows in Delhi, first in Underhill Road, then in Alipur Road, but the India...

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1954: Dr. Gregory Pincus, a scientist, and Dr....

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1954

Dr. Gregory Pincus , a scientist, and Dr. John Rock , a Catholic physician, began the first human trials of the birth-control pill on 50 female volunteers in Massachusetts at the Worcester Foundation for Experimental Biology

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